“Jeremy Mendes and Leanne Allison’s poignant interactive documentary about a bear in the Canadian Rockies illuminates the way humans engage with wildlife in the age of networks, satellites, and digital surveillance.” (Sundance Film Festival)

What do the stories of Dennis Rodman’s roadtrip to North Korea, the report from the Ukraine by Simon Ostrovsky, who was kidnapped and released in the process, and, more recently, THE ISLAMIC STATE documentary by freelancer Medyan Dairieh all have in common? In a word: Vice.

What happens when audiences participate and technology and storytelling collide? THE CLOUD CHAMBER MYSTERY, which launched online on October 4th, 2013, is one of the latest projects to explore these questions as it weaves together elements from classical theater, game design, electronic music, science, social media, and cinematography.

“5M80” is an animated short by Nicolas Deveaux featuring high diving giraffes. The film is named after the average height of its stars. It was inspired by an earlier project of Deveaux’s called “7TONNES3” that featured an elephant jumping on a trampoline.